Publisher's Synopsis
David F. Bell
Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime
Uri Eisenzweig
Violence Untold: The Birth of a Modern Fascination
Dominique Kalifa
Criminal Investigators at the Fin-de-siècle
Andrea Goulet
Curiosity Killer's Instinct: Bibliophilia and the Myth of the Rational Detective
Nanette Fornabai
Criminal Factors: Fantômas, Anthropometrics, and the Numerical Fictions of Modern
Criminal Identity
Tom Gunning
Lynx-Eyed Detectives and Shadow Bandits: Visuality and Eclipse in French Detective
Stories and Films before WWI
Daniel Desormeaux
The First of the (Black) Memorialists: Toussaint Louverture
Albert Valdman
Haitian Creole at the Dawn of Independence
Deborah Jenson
From the Kidnapping(s) of the Louvertures to the Alleged Kidnapping of Aristide: Legacies of Slavery in the Post/Colonial World
Robert Rushing
Traveling Detectives: The 'Logic of Arrest' and the Pleasures of (Avoiding) the Real
Page Dubois
Oedipus as Detective: Sophocles, Simenon, Robbe-Grillet
David Platten
Into the Woods: Contemporary Roman Noir as Modern Fairy Tale
Claire Gorra
Reflections on Crime and Punishment: Memories of the Holocaust in Recent French
Crime Fiction
Pierre Verdaguer
Borrowed Settings: Frenchness in Anglo-American Detective Fiction
Pim Higginson
Mayhem at the Crossroads: Francophone African Fiction and the Rise of the Crime Novel
Susanna Lee
Punk Noir: Anarchy in Two Idioms
